61.   My heart sank when my pancakes arrived with little plastic cups of syrup on the plate, usually a sure sign of bland griddle uniformity.

62.   One imagined that his heart sank a little bit, again.

63.   Quarterback Jake Plummer, who threw the pass, said his heart also sank when he saw Boston land hard.

64.   Rebecca Merry was watching the game and her heart sank.

65.   Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, a teen-ager in the audience cheering Pepper on, recalled that his heart sank at such simple logic.

66.   She said her heart sank when she saw him with a blonde and then soared when she found out it was his sister.

67.   So when Jorge Mata, CEO of MyAlert.com, offered to do a demo of his wireless portal, my heart sank.

68.   Sorry, skiers and snowshoers and unmotorized wilderness partakers of every persuasion whose hearts sink at the distant sound of a snowmobile assault on the senses and sensibilities.

69.   Still, his heart sank when he was told the separation was official.